Aerial view of Hoover Dam

Metadata

Title

Aerial view of Hoover Dam

Digital Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Original Date

1937?-1938?

Description

This color transparency is an aerial view looking upstream of Hoover Dam, the Colorado River, Lake Mead (the reservoir), and the mountains surrounding the area. Fortification Hill is in the background.

Subject

• Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Aerial views(feed)
• Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)(feed)
• Mead, Lake (Ariz. and Nev.)(feed)
• Reservoirs(feed)
• Mountains(feed)
• Fortification Hill (Ariz.)(feed)
• Black Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.)(feed)

Local subject

• Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Design and construction(feed)
• Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)(feed)
• Black Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.)(feed)

Format

image/jp2 5598 KB

Digitization Specifications

This file is derived from a high-resolution (300 dpi, 24-bit) uncompressed TIFF image that was scanned from the original using a AGFA Duoscan T 1200 scanner with AGFA FotoLook 32 V3.60.0 scanning software, default color configuration. The TIFF files were converted into the JPEG2000 format.

Image Number

0100 2783

Resource Type

Still Image

Is Part Of

http://digital.library.unlv.edu/u?/dig,8

Access and Ordering Information

Not to be reproduced without permission. To purchase copies of images and/or for copyright information, contact University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections at: http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/

Contributing Institution

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections. Manis Collection.

Digital Collection

• Las Vegas and Water in the West(feed)

DigitalID

wiw000052